Deep
Vein Thrombosis (DVT) post liposuction .
The main cause of death post
liposuction mostly are anesthetic death (general anesthesia or
overdose in local anesthesia). Very seldom there were some cases with
pulmonary thrombo-emboli, cause by deep-vein-thrombosis (DVT)..
DVT should be treated promptly in well-equipt
hospital in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), because of DVT's fatality rate is
high.
DVT is a blood clot formation in leg
vein, became free , follow the blood stream, and block the lung or heart
vessels. DVT could be happened from any surgical procedures, not only
after liposuction . DVT could also happened without any correlation
with surgery, such as delivery after pregnancy, or condition where long
immobility of the body such a long flight . The predisposing factors are:
woman, older than 40 years, smoking, in hormone (estrogen) replacement
therapy, obese, with family history of DVT.
One famous case of fatal DVT without
any correlation with liposuction or surgery was the Miss
Christofferson case, a 20 years healthy
female on a long flight from Melbourne to London (20 hours flight).
Minutes after leaving the aircraft, she died because of DVT. The newspaper
all over the world said this is an "economy
class syndrome", which happened more than 100 cases per
year.
The conclusion
is DVT could be happened in any situation, and when happened in post
liposuction patient, not merely cause by the doctor's fault, but mostly
because of the patient condition itself.